What is Microsoft Copilot the unthinking persons guide (computer) [Video]

Microsoft Copilot is its name for an AI-enhanced digital assistant. It can use the chat interface to search, help rewrite or summarise documents, emails and texts, or even generate content and images. But it is so much more, and its capabilities evolve daily.

Perhaps the biggest thing to remember is what Copilot is not. It is not intelligent. It is just the embodiment of machine learning and programmed responses gleaned from massive, large language modules (LLMs) generated by learning from almost all the world’s digitised content (called data sets).

There is no reasoning, moralising, or creativity behind its results. It does not contemplate how it can help you today. Read What is AI (Artificial Intelligence), how will it affect me?

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